Coalitions and Voting Behavior in a Differentiating Multiparty System

Huber, Sascha

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“…To be sure, splitticket voting is on the rise in German elections. Nevertheless, more than 75% of German voters still cast a straight ticket in federal elections (Gschwend et al, 2003;Schön, 1999;Huber, 2014). This reinforces the parties' perceptions that running strong local candidates and helping legislators with strong local orientations to please their local constituencies will translate into increasing list-vote shares and thus gains in parliamentary seats.…”

Section: Committee Assignments Under Mmp Rulesmentioning

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Who brings home the pork? Parties and the role of localness in committee assignments in mixed-member proportional systems

Gschwend

Zittel

2016

Party Politics

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The assignment of seats to specialized standing committees is a most consequential choice in legislative contexts. Distributive theories of legislative organization suggest that electoral incentives to cultivate personal votes result in the self-selection of legislators to committees best suited to please their constituents and, thus, to secure reelection. However, these theories discard the partisan basis of European parliaments and therefore fail to adequately assess the politics of committee assignments in these particular contexts. This article aims to explore the significance of distributive theories for the German case in differentiated ways and on the basis of a new and rich data set including statistical data for five legislative terms (1983, 1987, 1998, 2005, and 2009). It argues that in partisan assemblies, political parties might develop an interest in distributive politics themselves and might assign distinct types of legislators to distinct committees to seek personal votes contingent upon distinct electoral incentives. Particularly, we argue that Germany’s mixed proportional system provides incentives to parties to assign legislators with profound local roots to district committees best suited to please geographic constituents.

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Section: Committee Assignments Under Mmp Rulesmentioning

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Who brings home the pork? Parties and the role of localness in committee assignments in mixed-member proportional systems

Gschwend

Zittel

2016

Party Politics

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“…Yet, we know surprisingly little about the nature of voters’ coalition preferences. Building on a recent strand of research which suggests a strong role of coalitions’ evaluations (Huber 2014 ; Meffert and Gschwend 2012 ; Meyer and Strobl 2016 ), we examined in detail the idea of preferences for coalitions as separate entities distinct from parties.…”

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“…This means that voters have had the time to learn, cope and possibly form real attitudes towards those coalition arrangements that represent historical regularities and common patterns (Armstrong and Duch 2010 ; Banaszak and Doerschler 2012 ; Fortunato and Stevenson 2013 ). Hence, there is a possibility that, over time, coalitions may have developed into a meaningful political object for some voters who have hence come to develop specific coalition preferences over those of parties (Huber 2014 ).…”

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“…That is, the rating of the preferred party should always be higher than the ratings of the preferred coalition that consists of this party and another party. If, however, coalitions are discrete political objects that voters relate to, voters may also rate a coalition higher or lower than the parties it is composed of (Huber 2014 ).…”

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“…Existing studies in this regard refer to both a ‘bandwagon effect’ with expectations exerting a strong effect on preferences but also a ‘wishful thinking’ effect, with preferences strongly influencing expectations (e.g. Meffert et al 2011 ; Huber 2014 ; Bartels 2002 ). Given that the data at hand do not allow us to assess causality, we avoid the addition of likelihood perceptions in our empirical models.…”

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On the nature of voters’ coalition preferences

Plescia

Aichholzer

2016

Journal of Elections, Public Opinion and Parties

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An expanding literature indicates that in multiparty systems with coalition governments, citizens consider the post-electoral bargaining process among parties when casting their vote. Yet, we know surprisingly little about the nature of voters’ coalition preferences. This paper uses data from the Austrian National Election Study to examine the determinants as well as the independence of preferences for coalitions as political object. We find that coalition preferences are strongly informed by spatial considerations; but additional non-ideological factors, such as party and leader preferences, also play a fundamental role. We also find that coalitions enjoy a certain degree of independence from other objects of vote choice and they do not always represent a simple average score on the feeling thermometer of the constituent parties. There are, however, substantial differences among voters, with party identifiers and those with extreme ideology being less likely to consider coalitions as separate entities from their component parties.

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Expressive Wähler bei der Bundestagswahl 2013

Huber

Schmitt‐Beck

2016

Wahlen Und Wähler

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Coalitions and Voting Behavior in a Differentiating Multiparty System

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Who brings home the pork? Parties and the role of localness in committee assignments in mixed-member proportional systems

Who brings home the pork? Parties and the role of localness in committee assignments in mixed-member proportional systems

On the nature of voters’ coalition preferences

Expressive Wähler bei der Bundestagswahl 2013

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